This is a great place to spend time interrogating how we determine value in writing (often the definitions for what something is or isn’t is where racism hides): Sometimes students work in groups to provide a list of essay “must-haves.” Other times we come together after our close-reading and make a list of observations that then become a definition. I have approached this collaboration in a variety of ways. Rather than providing students with a definition for an essay (and therefore the requirements OF an essay), I invite students to define “essay.” After closely reading several essays, including Paul Lynch’s “ The 6th Paragraph” which introduces students to Montaigne’s essais, and examining essays (or essay-like artifacts) in class, students and I collaborate on a definition.
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